The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 9Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... death of Bernacchi , of whom he speaks in terms of affection and esteem in an extant letter addressed to the Padre Martini . Returning to Bologna , Farinelli spent the remainder of his days there in a melancholy splendor , and died July ...
... death of Bernacchi , of whom he speaks in terms of affection and esteem in an extant letter addressed to the Padre Martini . Returning to Bologna , Farinelli spent the remainder of his days there in a melancholy splendor , and died July ...
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... death , and a few capital crimes which were not regarded as felonies . It became a principle of law that when a crime was declared by statute to be a felony , the punishment of death with forfeiture of land and goods necessarily ...
... death , and a few capital crimes which were not regarded as felonies . It became a principle of law that when a crime was declared by statute to be a felony , the punishment of death with forfeiture of land and goods necessarily ...
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... death of Matthias in 1619 he laid Bernhard and General Baner , he was at an early period claim to the imperial crown . His keen Roman Catholic of his reign strongly desirous of obtaining peace even at sympathies , allied to a character ...
... death of Matthias in 1619 he laid Bernhard and General Baner , he was at an early period claim to the imperial crown . His keen Roman Catholic of his reign strongly desirous of obtaining peace even at sympathies , allied to a character ...
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... death of Pedro of Castile in 1369 , Ferdi- Pelayo in the male line , to surrender his rights over Castile , nand , as great - grandson of Sancho IV . by the female line , and also to give his sister Sancha in marriage to Ferdinand ...
... death of Pedro of Castile in 1369 , Ferdi- Pelayo in the male line , to surrender his rights over Castile , nand , as great - grandson of Sancho IV . by the female line , and also to give his sister Sancha in marriage to Ferdinand ...
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... death of his father in 1157. The history of his reign of thirty- one years is obscure . A dispute that arose between him and some of his powerful nobles gave his brother Sancho III . of Castile a pretext for invading his territory ...
... death of his father in 1157. The history of his reign of thirty- one years is obscure . A dispute that arose between him and some of his powerful nobles gave his brother Sancho III . of Castile a pretext for invading his territory ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...